Open units are units which are outside of a student's subject discipline(s) that are available in many undergraduate programmes (subject to space and timetabling constraints). Typically these units are interdisciplinary and do not have any pre- or co-requisites. Single honours undergraduate students are normally able to choose up to 20 credit points of open units.
The University has developed a number of thematic, interdisciplinary "Bristol Futures" open units which deal with issues and themes of current importance. Details of these units are available here including video trailers for some of the units. Specific details about each unit is available below. The Bristol Futures optional units are:
City Futures: Migration, Citizenship, and Planetary Change
Creative Futures: Tools for Changing the World
Decolonise the Future!
Science of Happiness
Sustainable Development
Understanding global problems using data: inequality, climate change and the economy
The open units scheme also includes the University Wide Language Programme units. Details of these are available here as well as specific information about each unit below.
It is possible that open units appearing on this list will be unavailable if capacity has been taken up by students taking it as an optional unit.
What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Aircraft Operations | AENG24630 | 10 |
| American Fiction that Matters: US Writing in 'The American Century' | MODL23012 | 20 |
| Anguish in Eden: Foundations of American Prose Writing | MODL23011 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Catalan Language (ab-initio option) | HISP20043 | 20 |
| Christian Theology and Non-Christian Religions | THRS20089 | 20 |
| Conservation Biology | BIOL20401 | 10 |
| Criminology | SPOL21010 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Epic | CLAS22361 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21022 | 20 |
| French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 (continuation of Level 1 Grade 1) | LANG21012 | 10 |
| French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22022 | 20 |
| French for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22012 | 10 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21013 | 10 |
| German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21023 | 20 |
| German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22013 | 10 |
| German for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22023 | 20 |
| Greek and Roman Drama | CLAS22363 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Health Care Policies | SPOL21018 | 20 |
| Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL20055 | 20 |
| Hebrew Texts | THRS20035 | 20 |
| History of the USA Before 1865 | MODL23009 | 20 |
| History of the USA Since 1865 | MODL23010 | 20 |
| Homeric Society | CLAS22343 | 20 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | COMS21301 | 10 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Italian for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21024 | 20 |
| Italian for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21014 | 10 |
| Italian for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22014 | 10 |
| Italian for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22024 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Japanese for General Purposes Pre-Intermediate | LANG21046 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Mahayana Buddhism | THRS20032 | 20 |
| Mandarin Chinese for General Purposes (pre-intermediate) | LANG21047 | 20 |
| Marine Ecology and Physiology | BIOL21403 | 10 |
| Migration Policy in the UK and European Union | SPOL20030 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Personal Welfare Services | SPOL20053 | 20 |
| Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL20019 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Rome: Republic to Principate | CLAS22383 | 20 |
| Russian Thought 1825-1881 | RUSS20039 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Social Policy and The Lifecourse | SPOL22031 | 20 |
| Social Policy and the European Union | SPOL20051 | 20 |
| Social Research Methods | SOAD20004 | 20 |
| Societal Change and the Transformation of Work | SPOL22030 | 20 |
| Spanish for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21025 | 20 |
| Spanish for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 1 | LANG21015 | 10 |
| Spanish for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22025 | 20 |
| Spanish for Specific Purposes Level 2 Grade 2 | LANG22015 | 10 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| The Hellenistic World | CLAS22382 | 20 |
| The Scriptures and the Scrolls | THRS20092 | 20 |
| Theorising Social Welfare I | SPOL21001 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Understanding Public Policy | SPOL20054 | 20 |
| Understanding Urban Society | SPOL20023 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| Violence against Women | SPOL20013 | 20 |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other Top | ||
| What is the Good Life? | CLAS22354 | 20 |
